I was flicking through package review requests to see if anything jumped
out as interesting when I saw this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1280422
Thought I'd take a look as I hadn't had time to review it when it first
appeared and the requester had fixed the github breaking fedora-review
issue ...
I was very surprised to see :
Package request has been approved:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpg
Given that there is no assignee, no review and no flags on the bug was
there just a mistake in an automated process or has policy changed on
actually needing a review?

Planned Outage: Mailman / Nagios - 2015-12-02 03:00 UTC
There will be an outage starting at 2015-12-02 03:00 UTC, which will
last approximately 1 hour.
To convert UTC to your local time, take a look at
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/UTCHowto or run:
date -d '2015-12-02 03:00 UTC'
Reason for outage:
We will be re-adding a replaced hard drive.
Affected Services:
virthost17:bugzilla2fedmsg01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:running:1
virthost17:db-datanommer02.phx2.fedoraproject.org:running:1
virthost17:ipsilon02.phx2.fedoraproject.org:running:1
virthost17:kerneltest01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:running:1
virthost17:mailman01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:running:1
virthost17:memcached01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:running:1
virthost17:noc01.phx2.fedoraproject.org:running:1
virthost17:proxy10.phx2.fedoraproject.org:running:1
Mosts of the services are redundant except for Mailman
(lists.fedoraproject.orglists.fedorahosted.org) and Nagios NOC01
(admin.fedoraproject.org/nagios/)
Contact Information:
Ticket Link: https://fedorahosted.org/fedora-infrastructure/ticket/5007
Please join #fedora-admin or #fedora-noc on irc.freenode.net or add
comments to the ticket for this outage above.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.

Hey guys,
Today I built snapshots of gnome-session gdm gnome-shell and mutter
that change how we do sessions at the login screen. We'll no longer
have separate items for GNOME and GNOME on Wayland. Instead they're
now both consolidated under the GNOME item. That item will use
wayland if it can, but if it falls back (because of a failure or
nvidia proprietary drivers, or the user explicitly disables wayland in
/etc/gdm/custom.conf) then that GNOME item will use Xorg instead.
I'm doing this for now in rawhide as preparation for this system-wide
f24 change:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/WaylandByDefault
If things don't pan out for whatever reason, or the change gets
otherwise rejected for f24, we'll split the items back out into two
items.
But it's good to get this in rawhide now, so we can get as much
exposure as possible to potential wayland problems and get them fixed
up before release.
Just a heads up ! If you're a rawhide user please test!
--Ray

tl; dr: I have submitted the following RFE for pkgdb:
https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/274
Please add comments there if you have any.
I know I'm not the only provenpackager to have applied a bugfix to
someone's package only to be yelled at it for it. Some maintainers are
more prickly about having others touch the packages they maintain for
the community than others, and unfortunately there's currently just no
way to know whether you'll be thanked or flamed for helping out with a
package.
After some IRC discussion I've come to the following proposal: that
maintainers have some way to easily indicate how open they are to
external contributions. Basically this would take the form of a few
options in pkgdb where maintainers can indicate their willingness to
have provenpackagers carry out a few actions. Please read the github
ticket for details:
https://github.com/fedora-infra/pkgdb2/issues/274
This would be purely advisory, with hopefully reasonable defaults. I
believe it has the potential to eliminate quite a bit of friction that
provenpackagers must handle, as well as eliminate the hesitation some of
us feel for fear of being flamed.
- J<